The main special effects staff member of the Gaiety of Visage is Hyalos, an overworked and perpetually tired half-Draxie, half-Gargoyle. Their body is covered in rocky scales, and their wings are cracked in places, revealing a mesmerising stained glass interior. He was first encountered during the quest All Work and No Play.

Their mother was a Draxie, and their father a Gargoyle who disguised himself as a 'lesser Visage', which was seen as a child of Visage itself, its messenger, or something other equally important. A temporary cult was formed around this false 'Visage', and Hyalos' mother was a priestess of this cult. She was aware of the Gargoyle's true nature, helping him with upkeeping the façade, and the two eventually got romantically involved. After some time, however, this trick was discovered, and the Gargoyle was angrily banished from Visage, and the Draxie priestess followed him. 

The resulting child of this romance, Hyalos, is now an Alchemist and a magical crafter with odd and disorienting categorisation systems for his ingredients, materials and components. Highly in demand, he is constantly trudging through a backlog of commissions, but if someone is willing to be cooperative and helpful, Hyalos will bump the new job up and handle it immediately.

They can be quite a chatty gossiper when given an opportunity, but are otherwise often annoyed and lonely, because some people of Visage still see him as a profane outcast, and his parents as blasphemers, while others see him as nothing more than a peculiar attraction, or just one of many workers, tolerated due to being required for the Gaiety to function. 

GM Notes

Visage

- Hyalos is Lady Nacrea's half-sibling - they share their Draxie mother. The two don't know this, however. 

Title
Special Effects Artificer

Type
NPC

Gender
Nonbinary

Pronouns
He/They